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title = "Band"
date = 2022-04-22
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Bad Disclaimer
==============

I originally started writing this post immediately after my last one,
but life happened. I have made a few edits to make it read more like I
wrote it today, but some of it might still read like something written
at different times from different perspectives.

Working on free software for my day job, off the clock
======================================================

Mostly in December through the beginning of February, I put quite a bit
of my free time contributing to other projects. But I did spend some
time working on a few of my own.

I don\'t want to get into everything I\'ve been working on recently.
Most of it isn\'t very exciting, except for the MED frontend, which
originally started off as an example for students, then a capstone
project, and now a working person details vuejs app. It works, it has
some issues, it needs tests, there\'s slop, and I wrote it in my spare
time along over the last two years. Several things I would have done
differently if I had started working on it last month, say.

The original project was python, but in my day job I use several other
languages, one of which has quite a bit of legacy, which it might be
obvious what some of the code I currently maintain uses. In the past,
I\'ve developed plugins using dynamic rather than using an Interface.
The problem with using an Interface is the Plugins need to have some
kind of knowledge of the type, so for a namespace with typed Interfaces,
this can be difficult if something changes. Optionally, if both the main
program and the plugins inherent from a third library, then both are
dependent on the same code.

On the other hand, with the dynamic type, all that needs to happen to
keep the polymorphism is an agreement for naming the members. And they
can then return whatever they want, but again, dynamic or other
primitives work best when trying to avoid moving targets.

Case trapped in his wetware
===========================

I\'m mostly, but not entirely recovered from getting hit by the car. A
few other things have come up, don\'t really want to get into it all,
except to say the effects of the crash, albeit it at such a low speed,
have affect my body, mind, and wallet. Monetarily, to put it into
perspective, I\'ve spent more on repairing my body over the last two
months, so to speak, than I have on computer parts over the last two
years. Thank goodness for insurance.

Trumpets
--------

I have, however, managed to acquire a trumpet. With the injuries, I had
some difficulty playing my guitar because I need my left hand. But my
right hand works just fine. So for the first time in years, I\'ve
started playing a brass instrument again, not very well, but good enough
to play a scale, taps, and twinkle twinkle little star.

War
===

The war in Ukraine, though not the only war in the world, happens to be
a war that has affected my close, extended family directly.

Why Rude English
================

The topic of deprecating some words came up at work again today. It
reminded me of a conversation that I used to hear my mom talk about
between her and her father. I heard the retelling of that conversation
several times, growing up. It has had a significant and positive impact
on my values.

All of that said, some words a person should probably never use. Some
other words might only come across rude in some contexts, but if they
have an alternative, using the alternative avoids any potential
conflict. But some words can take hundreds of years to phase out. It
seems possible that some words could change meaning over time such that
they go from neutral to rude to not rude. For example, certainly the
expression \"that sucks\" has become so overused that using it around
co-workers in the 1980s when some might have considered it obscene,
these days I could probably expect to hear it said in the workplace with
much worry or concern.

Does that make all words a hazard that we risk rudeness with each
sentence?

Don\'t Say Gay
==============

If I had as much money as the world\'s dragons, I could start a
harmless, though potentially effective campaign to stop these kinds of
censorship and shaming. I could target the extreme alt right
appropriation of my culture:

Just remember, even Thor dressed in drag; Loki birthed a child; Njord
was trans; Odin was all of the above.

Black Holes, Big Bang, White Holes
==================================

See the video below. On one hand, there are some privacy concerns,
\"Stay out of my head\" kind of things. But in the sea of the infinite,
it gives me hope...

Reading
=======

-   <https://curl.se/docs/manual.html#custom-output>
-   <https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/verbose/writeout>
-   <https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7540.html>
-   <https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/introduction-to-building-a-plug-in-architecture-using-C-Sharp/>
-   <https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4691/Plugin-Architecture-using-C>
-   <https://www.democracymatrix.com/>
-   <https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html>

Coding
------

-   <https://notabug.org/med/med-fe>

Watching
--------

-   [Some More News \| War is
    Bad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DorPA9y2qSU)
-   [Rachel\'s English \| English Words Americans
    Mispronounce...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50sVMNMYNjA)
-   [PBS Space Time \| Could The Universe Be Inside A Black
    Hole?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRgFqbBM5E)
